Since the beginning of 2021, Moroccan police have arrested more than 12,000 people trying to leave the country using irregular forms of migration. According to their own reports, they have also dismantled 150 smuggling networks.
Without migrants and refugees, important areas of the labor market in Germany would come to a standstill, a new study shows. Occupations where staff is already in short supply would be particularly affected.
Italy's foreign ministry has allocated €21.5 million in emergency funds to UN refugee agency UNHCR. The money is intended for humanitarian activities in Afghanistan and nearby countries.
The international community has not done enough to support Lebanon, says UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The country has been suffering a dire economic crisis while trying to accommodate more than one million Syrian refugees.
More than 184,000 irregular border crossing into the EU were detected by Frontex in the first eleven months of this year. That's a 60% increase compared to the same period in 2020.